National Catholic bishops conferences in some of these countries and many individual bishops are contenting themselves with pronouncements and strategies focusing only on Catholic teaching about the beauty and worth of marriage while assiduously avoiding any mention of the agenda to force acceptance of homosexuality that is driving the same-sex marriage push. One Canadian bishop told LifeSiteNews.com that the Canadian Catholic public was "not ready to hear" the Church's teaching on homosexuality.

Such political correctness does not seem to be restraining the bishops of Spain however. Fernando Sebastian, Archbishop of Pamplona in northern Spain and Secretary of the Spanish bishops conference, has infuriated homosexual activists by referring to homosexuality as an "epidemic" and identifying it as a "fount of psychological problems and painful frustrations."

"Homosexuals, if they wish, and with well-targeted help, can change their situation," The bishop said on Saturday. He added, "For me, all are sons of God, and all deserve the same respect."

The comments come as Spain's socialist government continues to work to sever that country's historical connection with Catholicism. On January 3rd, the Zapatero cabinet voted to legalize homosexual unions and call them 'marriage.' Since coming to power last year, the new government has moved quickly to eliminate mandatory Catholic religious education in schools, legalize embryonic stem cell research, and promoted abortion. The Spanish socialists were among the first to ratify a European Parliament 94.03% of Spain's population remains Catholic.

The irony is that the socialists came into power only because of the election impact of the terrible train bombing by Islamic terrorists who, among other reasons, justify their actions because of moral corruption in the West.

In a pastoral letter, the current bishop of Avila, home of St. Teresa of Avila, one of Catholicism's most famous 16th century mystic saints and theologians, compared the violent shift away from Spanish traditions to a coups d'etat. Bishop Jesus Garcia Burrillo called the changes "a violent cultural earthquake," in his recent pastoral letter, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer. "It is not easy to find in history, in such a short space of time, so many changes affecting morality [except] in time of coups d'etat," he said.

National Catholic bishops conferences in some of these countries and many individual bishops are contenting themselves with pronouncements and strategies focusing only on Catholic teaching about the beauty and worth of marriage while assiduously avoiding any mention of the agenda to force acceptance of homosexuality that is driving the same-sex marriage push. One Canadian bishop told LifeSiteNews.com that the Canadian Catholic public was "not ready to hear" the Church's teaching on homosexuality.

Such political correctness does not seem to be restraining the bishops of Spain however. Fernando Sebastian, Archbishop of Pamplona in northern Spain and Secretary of the Spanish bishops conference, has infuriated homosexual activists by referring to homosexuality as an "epidemic" and identifying it as a "fount of psychological problems and painful frustrations."

"Homosexuals, if they wish, and with well-targeted help, can change their situation," The bishop said on Saturday. He added, "For me, all are sons of God, and all deserve the same respect."

The comments come as Spain's socialist government continues to work to sever that country's historical connection with Catholicism. On January 3rd, the Zapatero cabinet voted to legalize homosexual unions and call them 'marriage.' Since coming to power last year, the new government has moved quickly to eliminate mandatory Catholic religious education in schools, legalize embryonic stem cell research, and promoted abortion. The Spanish socialists were among the first to ratify a European Parliament 94.03% of Spain's population remains Catholic.

The irony is that the socialists came into power only because of the election impact of the terrible train bombing by Islamic terrorists who, among other reasons, justify their actions because of moral corruption in the West.

In a pastoral letter, the current bishop of Avila, home of St. Teresa of Avila, one of Catholicism's most famous 16th century mystic saints and theologians, compared the violent shift away from Spanish traditions to a coups d'etat. Bishop Jesus Garcia Burrillo called the changes "a violent cultural earthquake," in his recent pastoral letter, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer. "It is not easy to find in history, in such a short space of time, so many changes affecting morality [except] in time of coups d'etat," he said.

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC hiararchy of SPAIN is my favorite in the world for this. They have..... courage. Spain had the most powerful catholic church in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, and still does. However, some of the priests don't listen, and are disloyal to the Bishops and Rome. However, wow!! the Bishops stand up always!!!! To what is right, and don't care who may or may not like it=tough cookies!!

Misericordie, I am spanish and it isn t so good than you think, in San Sebastian and BIlbao in the Basque Country many priests support nationalism and don t want to make masses for the ETA's victims and there are a more deep secularization in Spain than in USA, and there are few practising catholics and many people than still think that the church is an affair only of priests and not, us the laics, greetings

Franze,
Thank you for your insight into the situation. Somehow things always look better from a distance and worse up close. I will pray for your bishops, priests and all the people of Spain so that they will follow the Church. You at least have some bishops who are doing the right thing. God Bless.

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Franze,
Thank you for your insight into the situation. Somehow things always look better from a distance and worse up close. I will pray for your bishops, priests and all the people of Spain so that they will follow the Church. You at least have some bishops who are doing the right thing. God Bless.

We have better bishops than before and this is very good and we donīt have sexual abuses, well is true, but we have very little practising laics, and I am the younger cathecist in my parish, and there are almost none in 20s in my parish, and this isnīt worse than the majority in Spain, greetings

We have better bishops than before and this is very good and we donīt have sexual abuses, well is true, but we have very little practising laics, and I am the younger cathecist in my parish, and there are almost none in 20s in my parish, and this isnīt worse than the majority in Spain, greetings

Are you Basque?? Here I am NOT talking about the Basque country but of places like MADRID, Sevilla, Zaragoza. Yes you are right about the LAITY though, but here we are talking about the QUAlITY of the Cardinals and Bishops of SPAIN. Is is all to be applauded that there is No KNOWN clerical sexual abuse by clergy there. This says something great!!! My great grandparents came ORIGINALLY from the Canary Islands: Las Islas Canarias!!
Oh yes everyone, and Spain has produced so many saints in history: St. Theresa de Avila, St. Dominic of Guzman, St. Ignatias Loyola (Basque), St. Frncis Xavier, great JESUITS!!!!! San Fransisco de Borga, etc. etc. etc.

Are you Basque?? Here I am NOT talking about the Basque country but of places like MADRID, Sevilla, Zaragoza. Yes you are right about the LAITY though, but here we are talking about the QUAlITY of the Cardinals and Bishops of SPAIN. Is is all to be applauded that there is No KNOWN clerical sexual abuse by clergy there. This says something great!!! My great grandparents came ORIGINALLY from the Canary Islands: Las Islas Canarias!!
Oh yes everyone, and Spain has produced so many saints in history: St. Theresa de Avila, St. Dominic of Guzman, St. Ignatias Loyola (Basque), St. Frncis Xavier, great JESUITS!!!!! San Fransisco de Borga, etc. etc. etc.

Hello Misericordie, I am from Valencia, and yes have had many saints, but know we are in a different situation, greetings